All Novel Full Chapter 1383
Chapter 1383: Chapter 1245: Brother, who are you??
Chapter 1383: Chapter 1245: Brother, who are you??
Players were unaware of the “Total War” event trigger, a truly frustrating development.
They would definitely not be pleased to see their hard-earned progress on tasks plummet back to 35%.
So, the players were also taking action!
It was no longer about simply summoning people, because ordinary cannon fodder did not need summoning—they kept arriving in an endless stream.
There were indeed more posts calling for the veteran gamers of “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” to quickly go online and join the battle.
But these were just posted in passing.
—It’s Saturday now, and with the “Return to the Stars” world mission in full swing, the veterans didn’t need a call to action; if they had the time and the chance, they would log on themselves.
Especially after the invasion started, the System had notified players through the Cloud Dream app, and those who could be online were already there.
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The situation remained at a deadlock until now, with only two methods available to turn the tide of battle:
One was for all new players to withdraw from Chang’an, leaving the battlefield entirely to the veterans.
This way, the number and combat power of “General Energy”s NPC would decrease, giving the more powerful average veterans a chance to win.
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But the virtual world belongs to everyone, and it made no sense to ruin the game experience for newcomers.
Thus, only the second plan was viable—
Raising the combat power of the new players!
Aren’t the newcomers here to play a cyberpunk version of Battlefield?
Then pull in the commanders from Battlefield’s Peak War!
Handing over command to them, establishing a unified command system, would turn the current disorganized players into a tightly unified force!
This step proceeded exceptionally smoothly!
From last year to now, Peak War didn’t just have a group of evergreen commanders; there were also some who had stepped down for various reasons.
Now that the players called out, both incumbent commanders and those who had “retired” quickly responded to the call, arriving at the battlefield in no time.
This group was brimming with talent, not only consisting of natural gaming prodigies but also reserve and retired military officers, and even those who were highly suspected of still being active military personnel!
After the arrival of these commanders, they first communicated swiftly amongst themselves and set up a “temporary command center”—this was easy for them, as they were already in a large group chat and had previous cooperation experience.
The second step, they compiled battlefield intelligence to establish a feedback mechanism for the situation.
The third step involved quickly joining groups and adding friends, swiftly taking over command of various teams and integrating the independently fighting player teams into the same combat system.
The fourth step was to dispatch individuals to organize solo players and include them in the system as well.
With these four steps completed, the “Cyber Chang’an Temporary Command Center” officially commenced operation.
The battle line became organized at a visibly swift pace, and due to the abundance of personnel, the commanders even managed to organize teams to scout and stage sneak attacks on the enemy’s rear without engaging in direct combat.
Anti-air Weapons were concentrated for targeting and more effectively attacking the more threatening bombers.
As for those lighter Fighter Jets, they were left to the Drone Pilots to handle!
The intensity of the combat grew fiercer, and the situation more complex.
However, the players’ confidence and enthusiasm were rapidly ignited!
…
By the time Lincoln got home and finished lunch, the battle line had been pushed by the players an additional two kilometers, and the most dangerous moment had passed.
The progress of “Return to the Stars” never dropped to 35%, avoiding even more troublesome scenarios.
Lincoln breathed a sigh of relief.
It wasn’t that he was worried about a big event crushing the players’ morale, but rather that there were other significant events ahead.
If all their trump cards were played at once, the players would miss out on a surprise, wouldn’t they?
So, it was better to save it.
After lunch, having napped for a while with the soft and cuddly Mavis, Lincoln went back to poring over aerospace materials.
The massive battle engaging the players lasted until four in the afternoon before it largely came to an end—after which, the System released a multitude of tasks for pursuing and exterminating the remnants of the enemy.
It’s worth mentioning that these tasks each brought extra progress points.
The bases and Space Elevator infrastructure that had been damaged in the war, once repaired, not only granted progress points for the repair tasks but also saw the System restoring previously lost progress points.
Coming and going, it amounted to double the progress points.
With this two-pronged approach, by midnight that same day, the task progress not only recovered but was also pushed further to 47%!
The next critical milestone was nearly within reach!
However, the players had expended so much energy in the day’s battles that inevitably, there were fewer players staying up late today.
Thus, that last 3% of progress dragged on until Sunday morning at nine o’clock before it was completed.
—To achieve this timing, a special thanks was due to the tireless efforts of the Overseas Players in different time zones.
This time, Lincoln, Camille Victoria, Mavis, and many of the staff from Cloud Dream were also waiting nearby the task distribution Square, just like the players.
[50%] was a critical threshold.
Lincoln had initially even considered hosting the [General Energy Invasion] event at this point.
But considering how long the development teams had worked, eagerly awaiting this key opportunity to be in the spotlight, he didn’t have the heart to let the invasion event steal their thunder right away, so he preempted it a step earlier.
The enormous holographic screen plunged into darkness.
This time, what first appeared wasn’t the Screen of a particular Game, but four big characters—
[Cradle Project]
In front of the screen, the waiting players first fell silent, then immediately erupted into a huge cheer:
“Awesome!
My charming demon wife, my charming demon number two, and my charming demon number three are finally coming back!”
“They’re finally back!
My little dragon!
How have you managed these days without me to brush your teeth??”
“Earth Fire!
It’s time to update the nuclear-powered flying swords!
Hurry up and integrate Cloud Dream’s new stuff!”
“Ocean Blue!
Ocean Blue!
Set the sails, let’s hammer the British navy to pieces!”
…
The game demos of the [Cradle Project] clearly left a deep impression on the players.
Ever since the playtest ended, each day players urged the development teams to hurry up with phrases like “If I can’t play XXX again I’m going to die,” which frequented the official accounts of the selected ten games in large numbers.
Now that hope was finally in sight, the players were beyond excited.
Amidst all the cheering, the four big characters of [Cradle Project] slowly faded away.
The first game’s Screen appeared before everyone—
A planet had been shattered.
Dazzling beams of light shot forth from the distant reaches of outer Space, instantly piercing through the planet.
Under the fearsome attack of this Star Exterminator weapon, the bottom half of the planet fractured instantly, with scorching lava from its core spewing out thousands of kilometers into the cold Universe, hurling vast chunks of the crust far away.
The intact upper half, however, launched a dense mass of Space warships, determined to confront the source of the devastating beam.
There, a huge, black, flat spaceship floated silently, with an equally countless number of Fighter Jets swarming out like dark storm clouds, hurtling toward the opposing Fighters!
…
In front of the Screen, players gaped, stunned into silence.
Not because the scene was too shocking, but because—
“Dude, who the heck are you???”
Was this even part of the ten games chosen for [Cradle Project]?